Far-left groups pivot from May Day protests to mobilize voters for 2026 midterms, pushing Dems leftward

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Far-left nonprofits are pivoting from their May Day protests last week to mobilize voters for November's midterm elections and push Democrats further left, even criticizing party leaders for shunning their candidates. In an hour-long webinar hosted Tuesday night by "May Day Strong," an organizing coalition for last week’s protests, speakers laid out an electoral plan to win key races in the 2026 midterm election and "the ballot box." The far-left Working Families Party, which political experts say is exercising growing influence in electoral races throughout the country, was front-and-center in the presentation. The party was one of about 600 groups with collective revenues of $2 billion that organized an estimated 6,000 events last week for May Day, according to an investigation by Fox News Digital, with many organizations pushing talking points that were anti-American and pro-communist. Fox News Digital has identified 730 races in 19 states where the Working Families Party is endorsing candidates for offices ranging from the U.S. Senate to the Wauwatosa School Board in Wisconsin and the post of Mecklenburg County Sheriff in North Carolina, according to the organization's publicly available data. 600 GROUPS WITH $2B IN REVENUE MOBILIZE 3,000 MAY DAY PROTESTS IN A 'RED-BLUE' ALLIANCE, PROBE FINDS During the webinar on Tuesday, Maurice "Moe" Mitchell, national director at the Working Families Party, introduced himself by his political party and title and encouraged attendees to "help elect WFP champions across the country by joining upcoming phone banks and canvases." "We're going to organize our communities and build working class power at the ballot box," he said, Neither Working Families Party nor Mitchell responded to requests for comment. The political refrain about the "ballot box" was repeated by other webinar participants, many of them representing nonprofit organizations with legal restrictions on the amount of political work they can do. Despite those guar…